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Yunix (pronounced [yoo-niks]) aims to be a shell host offering free accounts to those in need.

Potential uses for this service include:

diagnostics

code development

code compiling

web development

personal web hosting

As you may or may not be aware, a host has recently been brought online, and account requests are ready to be received. For more information have a look at the What is it? page, or register for an account. Keep in mind that when you are registering for an account, you need to use a valid email address, and that address needs to remain valid, otherwise your accout will be deleted.

Yunix is not a fee for service platform, but it costs roughly $10 per user per year to run Yunix. This means the service relies on donations and advertising to stay online. If you truly want to help out, disable any ad-blockers for yunix.net and consider donating. To help KEEP the host online, you can donate via PayPal. If you are intending to run continuous processes like a bnc or bot, you should seriously consider donating. Anyone who donates will be favoured over those who do not.

Well, the new host has decided to migrate all of their customers to new host nodes on a new network, so the website has had to undergo another relocation. Hopefully this will be the last migration for a long time, and hopefully the performance of the new host remains as good as they claim - with SSD storage, faster processors and more memory - of course we know to some extent that means more guest containers per host, but time will tell how that will affect website performance.

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For those of you that have noticed the recent downtime, it is thanks to BlueMileCloud announcing on the 6th January that they were ceasing all hosting and would be terminating the server on which yunix.net runs on the 11th January.

Let's just say I'm a bit pissed, but the website is now running on a brand new server in Chicago.

And of course, just another reminder because I can - don't forget that yunix costs money to run - even hosting the website. All donations are most appreciated as this is not a commercial venture, and no profit is sought.

Some times, people just need to slow down and wait. Is it really that hard?

Things have been busy for me for the last little while. There's been pressure from work and family, absences due to holidays and time out, and yet, I'm still seeing the same things. Is patience really that hard a thing to handle?

It'll take me some time to play catch-up on any requests, but don't forget this is a free service, so it's not high on my list of priorities. If you're looking for the code, then for the love of God, sit still and WAIT. It's not that hard and you'll have much more success than a fool who stays in channel for only a few minutes.

Well, some bright spark has decided to ignore the terms of service and use yunix in a denial of service attack. This is very annoying because the hosting company is not stupid, they did what they needed to do which was shut down the host, which impacts EVERYONE. I don't appreciate being lied to and I don't appreciate my generosity being abused.

YUNIX MUST NOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED AN ATTACK.

If this happens again I may simply remove everyone's access. You are a fool if you think the hosting company and I will simply sit back and let you waste resources. I don't care what issues you may have and with who, all I ask is that you ABIDE BY THE RULES.

Whilst this is a great achievement and a milestone to celebrate, there is a serious side to this post, and that is that yunix needs the support of those who use it. If every user donated as little as $2 it would most of the way to funding the site for a year, at which point I would be able to look into the possibilities of opening a second server.

Well, I've all but given up on Google. The corporate side of the monster seems to have little or no desire to consider my "appeal" to their automated claims of "illegal" activity in any reasonable time frame. They have however, sent me an address verification letter which I cannot action because I have no access to adsense.

As such, I have removed adsense from the site and am evaluating alternative providers. If anyone has any problems with the ads on the site, you can post accordingly in the forums. As always, please DISABLE any ad-blockers, otherwise consider donating to help keep the server online!

A message to the person who seems to have spent a significant amount of time clicking the ads on the website (continuously): You can consider yourself responsible if yunix.net has to shut down.

This morning, I received an email saying my adsense account has been disabled due to illegal activity. It turns out that some moron spent a butt load of time clicking up almost $50 of click revenue for yunix.net. Of course in doing so, said user has clearly violated the adsense terms and conditions on my behalf, and as such it now looks like 100% of the revenue for yunix may possibly be forfeited.

So, thankyou, whomever you are. I've lodged an appeal, but if the account is not enabled again, I will be left with one less potential way to help yunix break even, and therefore one less reason to keep the site open.

And I'll reiterate, there have been exactly zero donations to this point. That equates to a 100% loss which I cannot afford to sustain indefinitely.

Sorry for the MC Hammer reference. Go search for "Hammer Time" videos if you don't know what I mean.

The shell host will be going down for a reboot tonight at around midnight tonight, GMT/UTC. That is to say, approximately 12am on Thursday Morning, 28th June.

This will be to switch to the latest released el6 kernel, and ensure recently update binaries are being used. If anyone has any background processes they will of course be terminated, and you'll need to restart them or ensure you have an appropriate crontab entry to start them. Post in the forums if you have any questions!

Well, the number of bots registering on the site in the last week has outnumbered what I consider to be likely humans by around 10 to 1. This is starting to annoy me (growing a zombie userbase does me no favours), so I have implemented a reCAPTCHA on the registration form.

Interestingly enough, I learned today that reCAPTCHA is a service that is used for translating scanned books to text, which I am somewhat impressed with. Despite being a Google service, I'm somewhat happy for them to benefit from this and no doubt grab some more of my statistical information in the process.

I think I'd love to work at Google one day, but I don't think they have any positions going for lazy half assed IRC bludgers, and the amount of knowledge they can piece together about individuals would probably scare me off the internet completely.

Anyhow, let round #2 begin. If you have problems with the reCAPTCHA, look for the #yunix channel on freenode.net and tell me about it!

Unfortunately, due to the sheer number of spam bots registering on the site in order to post utter CRAP in the forums, I've had to restrict posting within the forums. Any registered users can still post comments, but starting new threads is being restricted to those who have signed up for a shell account.

Whilst it might be nice to implement something like Akismet, to date I've received exactly zero donations to support the site, so this equates to approximately zero justification for spending yet more of my own money on something that's unlikely to break even any time soon.

If you have any problems posting comments or otherwise, then mosey on down to #yunix on irc.freenode.net and tell someone about it. There's not a whole lot of activity in channel currently, but ask away and stick around for a response. It's as easy as that.

Thanks to everyone for being patient whilst I sorted out the issues with the website.

Everything should be back online now and working fine. Coincidentally, I have also received an update from the hosting provider for the website saying that their network has been subjected to an increased number of DDoS attacks over the past few weeks, and that they are implelmenting measures to deal with this traffic before it hits their network. So if you notice the website is slow or non-responsive, bear in mind that this might be the cause.

For what it's worth, the shell host is located elsewhere and has remained unaffected. Fingers crossed it stays that way!

If you notice anything missing from the website, please do feel free to let me know. Once you've registered you can post in the forums, or for server/website issues you can find me on IRC. If you've already gotten an account, and would like a package installed on the shell host, you'll need to post in the Desired Features/Packages thread.